The Marshall Project

Yeah, I think I actually have brought this one before, but I mean, it's a great resource and it's never you can never say ACAB too often.

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system.

So they're trying to make people more aware of a lot of the injustice that happens in the justice system, specifically against black and brown people.

And I also chose this one because anti the current justice system, but also pro-black people.

Title, they have faced nearly 200 allegations of misconduct.

This is an independent investigation by the Marshall Project.

It's chilling, but I think it should be required reading.

I will link to it.

He became an outspoken critic of how the organization handled all these cases of abuse.

Quote, the vast majority of those affected were teenage girls, some as young as 13.

Lack of oversight, remember we talked about that, was partly responsible for the abuse the Marshall Project investigation found.

In many programs, armed officers were allowed to be alone with teenage explorers.

I think the fact that Trump later said, we're not going to livestream this execution distracted, in a way, from how novel this all still is going to be.

That's Maurice Chamas, a staff writer at The Marshall Project.

He's been reporting on the death penalty for over a decade.

In fact, he's been on this show before to talk about it.

I think the fact that Trump later said, we're not going to livestream this execution distracted, in a way, from how novel this all still is going to be.

That's Maurice Chamas, a staff writer at The Marshall Project.

He's been reporting on the death penalty for over a decade.

In fact, he's been on this show before to talk about it.

But yes, that might be news to some people.

And Made in America: The Products of US Prison Labor Are All Around Us is an excellent essay and a photo gallery by Tulane University Professor Daniela Zalkman for the nonprofit news outlet, The Marshall Project.

And this piece explained that incarcerated workers are responsible for producing over $2 billion in goods annually and $9 billion in services, uh, from eyeglasses, to barbecues, to mattresses, to the Arkansas Governor's Mansion, to labor.

And a lot of the objects are sold via federal and state prison industries to public institutions like libraries, and schools, and courthouses, and agencies.

Joining me tonight, we are pleased to welcome Maurice Shama.

He's a staff writer at the Marshall Project.

Welcome to State of the Bay, Maurice.

Hi, thanks for having me.

Governor Newsom is weighing whether to commute the sentences of everyone on California's death row.

And to talk about that, we're joined by, that was Michael Mendoza, the National Criminal Justice Director at Latino Justice.

We have Natasha Minsker, facilitator of the California Anti-Death Penalty Coalition, and Maurice Shama, staff writer at the Marshall Project.

And we want to hear from you.

Not this case, but the Police Explorer Program in general, uh, a bit.

So here's the first article from the Marshall Project, who's been doing a lot of work on the Police Explor- S- Explorer Program, if I can speak.

"How a Massachusetts cop allegedly groomed, controlled, and killed Sandra Birchmore.

Matthew Farwell met her in a Police Explorer Program.

The two met when Birchmore was a 13-year-old participant in the Stoughton Police Department's Explorer Po- Explorer Post, a mentorship program created by Scouting America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts, that teaches young people about law enforcement.

Farwell was an instructor and was later hired as a police officer.

The Marshall Project featured Birchmore's case earlier this year as part of an investigation that found nearly 200 allegations of abuse and misconduct in Police Explorer Programs across the country." I wanna tell you, this part here is not exactly how I understand it.

So what I'm...

The mandate follows a series of deaths inside the jail in recent years, at least half of which involved inadequate medical care or failure to begin CPR in a timely manner.

And I read the reporting on this, Abby, from the Marshall Project-

Mm-hmm

... and I said to myself, "Hold on a minute.

Before that, the, the old handbook basically said that CPR was only required in the event of seizure or suicide.

Uh, so now it has updated to say that officers must check for signs of life within 10 seconds of finding someone unresponsive, activate the alarm, secure the unit, and start attempting that CPR from the jump.

Um, and, and this, as you said, came from, like, a, a harrowing series from the Marshall Project, where they've done series of reporting on these deaths inside the jail, and, uh, like you said, a lot of them was because of a...

Or a lot of them were due to, um, inadequate medical care or failure to administer prompt CPR.